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The Frame Blog is an online magazine for articles, interviews and reviews about antique picture frames.

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A lot of pages are now live in the 'Drawings' section of The Frame Blog, accessible from the header. The C15 to halfway thro' the C18 are available; some have a lot more drawings on them than others, but I shall continue adding drawings whenever I find them...

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DRAWINGS and DESIGNS for FRAMES This section of The Frame Blog is intended to collect together from various sources – museums and elsewhere – as many as possible designs and drawings of…
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This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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February 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Executed (alas!) on this day in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots. Here just seven years old and already a queen at the court of France. Drawn by Clouet.
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Good Q @SarahKSilvermam
February 7, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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Rare Semper Augustus striped tulips crown these flowers arranged in a glass vase by Elias van den Broeck, whose day is today.
February 7, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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February 7, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.

An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Sick to death of greedy, predatory American companies thinking they can ride roughshod over a country's taxes and labour laws.
Good for the French. Make sure you get that money back for your taxpayers.
🇫🇷 Ride-sharing group Uber has been told by French authorities that it owes 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) in unpaid payroll taxes, according to a media report Monday.
➡️ u.afp.com/S2NV
February 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Still my daily cup.
Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, wherever and whenever one can - despite the increasing chance that it may not come in my lifetime.
Do the right thing for no other reason than it's the right thing to do. Ethical behavior matters. Everywhere, all the time.
February 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Truesec has observed that the Russian hacker alliance, known as the Russian Legion, has issued a warning targeting Denmark regarding an imminent large-scale cyberattack, codenamed “OpDenmark.”
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Newly Established Russian Hacker Alliance Threatens Denmark - Truesec
The first threat was published on the Russian Legion’s Telegram channel on January 28, 2026, demanding that the Danish government publicly reject the
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February 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Gambling again? They never learn. (Seen near Runfold Nature Reserve).
February 2, 2026 at 11:23 AM
John Constable and picture frames

John Constable and picture frames by Jacob Simon This is an initial exploration of some of John Constable’s landscape frames, primarily his Royal Academy exhibits, on the occasion of the Tate exhibition, Turner & Constable: rivals & originals (until 12 April 2026)…
John Constable and picture frames
John Constable and picture frames by Jacob Simon This is an initial exploration of some of John Constable’s landscape frames, primarily his Royal Academy exhibits, on the occasion of the Tate exhibition, Turner & Constable: rivals & originals (until 12 April 2026) [1]. Here we look at original or early frames and their makers, at attitudes to framing in Constable’s lifetime and at some later reframing.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:04 AM
25th January celebrates the conversion of St Paul from persecutor of Christians to faithful follower of Christ...
January 25, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Flight into Egypt. As with real refugees, they are exhausted, even the donkey. Unusual and rather lovely version of subject by Adriaen van der Werff, born OTD 1659.
January 21, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Tom Baker is 92 today
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 AM
More trompe l'oeil frames (including Henry VII's, who married wife 1 on 18 Jan 1486)...

For Uccello see: theframeblog.com/2024/07/26/n...

#Frames #TrompeLOeilFrames #Illusions #15thCenturyFrames #HenryVII #NationalPortraitGallery #NGofIreland #Rijksmuseum #TheFrameBlog
January 20, 2026 at 11:28 AM
This - 16 January 2026 - is the last day to apply for the 2026 Gernsheim Study Days: 'Framing the Drawing. Drawing the Frame' (Rome, 13-15 May 26)...
Details here:
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Framing the Drawing. Drawing the Frame (Rome, 13-15 May 26)
Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana: Max Planck Institute for Art History, May 13–15, 2026 Deadline: Jan 16, 2026 Marga Sanchez The 2026 Gernsheim Study Days seek to explore the relationship between early …
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
A presentation 'Pastiglia in Italian Renaissance cassoni ...', given by Professor Svetlana Nikolskaya at a conference on pastiglia in 2025, has just been published on The Frame Blog...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Pastiglia in Italian Renaissance cassoni of the 14th–16th centuries

Professor Svetlana Nikolskaya  This paper was given at the conference 'Pastiglia decoration', held on 18th November 2025 at the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan. Because pastiglia decoration, both as a…
Pastiglia in Italian Renaissance cassoni of the 14th–16th centuries
Professor Svetlana Nikolskaya  This paper was given at the conference 'Pastiglia decoration', held on 18th November 2025 at the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan. Because pastiglia decoration, both as a firmer, moulded and cast auxiliary material, or as applied directly to the object in a more liquid form, has been of great importance for the ornamentation of frames, all the presentations given at the conference - including those not specifically dealing with picture frames - are relevant to the latter.
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January 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1578, Giulio Clovio of Croatia, great miniaturist of the Italian renaissance. He did small what Michelangelo did large. Here, by himself (with his dog!) in 1528. @theframeblog.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Here for Epiphany is Domenico Ghirlandaio's tondo, The Adoration of the Magi, in the Uffizi since 1790. It's 171.5 cm. across, and was painted in 1487...

Tondi: theframeblog.com/2021/02/25/t...
Medici frames: auricularstyleframes.wordpress.com/archives/
January 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
As today is a calendar juncture, here is Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time at the Wallace Collection...

Happy New Year!
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January 1, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Here is Jean Bourdichon's Nativity (c.1480-90), when shepherds and angels have left the Holy Family in peace. It decorates a French Book of Hours in the Getty Museum, and has an outer border of symbolic flowers, foliage, fruit and trees.
See theframeblog.com/2020/11/19/f...
December 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM